I saw the entire episode, and thought it was a pretty good one.
I don’t think the implication was that the Carver grabbed Kimber, but come to think of it, there’s a chance that everything leading up to the jilting was red herring salad and Something Bad has happened to her.
Gina spent most of the episode laying a head trip on Kimber about how Christian would never stay with her and wouldn’t be satisfied until he had Julia. Kimber saw Christian getting maudlin looking at pictures from Sean & Julia’s wedding. The last person we saw with Kimber was Gina, who came in to give her a gift which she insisted she open immediately, with a nasty set-up about the “Something old, something new &C” tradition: She already had something borrowed, since Christian was only on temporary loan from the women of Los Angeles, there’d be no shortage of “something blue,” because the bride herself was destined to be miserable, I forget what the “something new” was, but the “something borrowed” was Gina’s old diaphragm (the one she used with Christian,) because the only way it could get more disastrous would be if Kimber got pregnant before she she realized the marriage was a sham.
A scene with Christian and Julia made it pretty clear that Julia’s over them, but Christian really is thinking they ought to make a go of it.
Earlier, Kimber bailed on the cake-tasting because she was obsessively fasting, and Sean went instead. During the tasting, Sean remarked that he couldn’t remember his own cake-tasting, and Christian said he was surprised that he didn’t remember: Sean had bailed on it and Christian had gone in his stead. There was a tense moment when Sean repeatedly implied that Christian had cheated with Julia on that occasion, and it seemed like he hadn’t forgotten it at all, but was just laying a trap for Christian. Then one of the bakery folks came out and made an effusively complimentary comment that made it clear that she thought that Christian and Sean were getting married. This defused the moment as they both had a lot of fun playing along with the misunderstanding.
The major plot thread that you missed is that Matt has gotten involved with a racist girl from school. She approached him about interviewing his father for an essay she was writing about the homogenation of appearance. After Matt arranged it, her questions made it clear to Christian (and Sean) that she was a racist loon – her concerns were mostly about people “passing” as white.
Matt was a little skeeved out, but seemed satisfied with the double-talk that the girl offered. (eg; fluffy talk about the symbolism – four L’s standing for “Light, luck, love, and life,” and its use in buddhism and as a native american glyph.) Then he went over to her place and got hooked in even more: Her father had a cop friend run a background check on him, and found out about the beating he gave that transsexual. Expecting to be vilified, he was praised instead. The girl’s father wanted patient information from McNamara Troy to determine what patients had surgeries which minimized features which might be thought of as ethnic traits. He said that they would be used to identify insurers who okayed cosmetic procedures based on “psychological duress,” in order to pressure the government make more stringent rules and take some of the burden off people who pay into health insurance programs. Even with the dubious claim about what would be done with the information, Matt was hesitant about betraying his family – until he showed up for Christian’s wedding (where he was supposed to be Best Man) wearing combat boots and an aryan-themed earring that racist-girl had given him and had both Christian and Sean insist that he change into shoes and take the earring out. So he went through with the scheme and copied the files, presumably because he’s found a “supportive” father figure, not to mention a little bit of action.
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Eh, I’ll let it stand.
